Leigh Taylor Armstrong: A graduate of Westminster School in Simsbury, Ct., where she was a class officer each year, Leigh will attend her parents’ alma mater, Southern Methodist University. In high school she was an honor student, varsity volleyball captain, a member of the John Hay Society, Black and Gold, and the Westminster Belles. Her summer plans call for a trip to Russia, working as a nanny and volunteering at her church. Read more…

Study after study has shown that when it comes to charitable fundraisers, Denver has more per capita than any comparably sized city in the nation. Joanne Davidson has been covering them for The Denver Post since 1985, coming here from her native California where she'd spent the previous seven years as San Francisco bureau chief for U.S. News & World Report magazine.